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It did its part, the total eclipse at the start. But the sky had fallen short, as early as afternoon, when we were at our cloudiest at its earliest here, said the weather woman on TV. So it was on her lips, not the eye of the sun but those clouds that eclipsed the eclipse, rather then having the blockage of the sun cause it. No “blackout” here. Where are those rock gods, The Scorpians, with an album title when you need them? —- And for a new Mama Mia mix, see Notes From The Beat.

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As it turned out in our end of the planet, and over such the moon is just the sun at […]

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Yes Virginia, there was a time before A.D. Although the life of Christ has held a sway for many hundreds of years of our lives, like perhaps no other as far as its overall impact, culture and heritage did flow before then. So following Easter, the first one since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, let us reflect and insert more of a sense of global and importantly historical perspective. Looking to music and dance, classical and otherwise.

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The life of Christ, and all in it from birth to death/tomb/resurrection and everything in-between, is a pinnacle event with

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What, you have Tourette Syndrome or some other severe ill, and you end up spending a night in jail? And need your meds? “Not in our town …” What you need to know behind the recent county public safefy referendum, and why it’s a long-needed step in the right direction, but I do applaud it … If for no other reason, liability looms. But here’s cheers to building on what’s already there, and making a positive new start. (And for some humor on the day, or night, that could have gotten you in such a state, see Notes From The Beat.)

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With the recent passage of a “public safety” referendum in our St. Croix County, with just over 54 percent voting

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The tale is fishy, even if viewed through a fish-eye lens. (As is the three-part holiday set in the Notes From The Beat.) On Good Friday, I was back to going Lutheran, which is what I grew up as, since no fish was to be found. Taco Tuesday, typically, is on the other side of the week. But hey, on this day even the ailing pope skipped his usual walk through the park of the dozen holy stations, or to a distant dining room. So there’s hope for the rest of us?

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This is the Thank God It’s Good Friday that was. Or was it … Where in the holy mackerel was

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Holidays are more than ham, though that’s great too, but you have to wait. Or fish when later in this week comes. And turkey comes a-calling? What happens when after a season of waiting expires, and there is the meaty meal of the day, and then another offering on the eve, and then a prime third choice, on the next (seventh of the week) day? Ham thus takes a back seat to all the other buffet bounty that is out there, now that Easter comes around. Lamb, lambast it, even goes on the lam. Lean and mean. (See below for more fake foodie stuff.)

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Where’s the beef? It is here. My sister-in-law went far beyond the usual ham for a meaty holiday dinner. But

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A history lesson, with five if not four or six, letters laden down with language like that in a big, bad legislative bill. But how many past and current presidents have a name of that many letters, (five which itself is actually spelled out in four digits), and not with doctorate degree added, and various potency, by level, was “shown.” This post, if you rest your ADHD, contains many dozens of terms, nouns ideally, in this letter format. And another post with such play on numbers if not word is about a dozen down.

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What is in a name? And what follows may be like this exercise, a bit longer than more four-letter words,

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One place became an Oasis in downtown Hudson as St. Patrick’s Day had its last hour, and tales of ancestry were re-hashed, with corned beef rather than the potatoes being mashed, while people were still sober enough to figure out their lineage percentages. But for further fodder, factor in New Richmond and its pre-finale parade.

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There was little after-party, as it was early on St. Patrick’s Day that revelers in downtown Hudson got bombed, literally.

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Now that St. Patrick’s Day is in the books, we will acquaint you with more history from the plat books. There’s more to the story than that published in a post a few stories below. Erin Prairie is more than 15 percent Irish and it shows, as the two town staples, the Catholic church and the longtime Irish pub that has fed off it for patronage, have been around since the platting of the area often called Jewitt Mills — fittingly named as you will see — one of the first such efforts in Wisconsin, though on its west end.

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The little town of Erin Prairie is as Irish as the Midwest gets, with those two Wisconsin staples making up

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Irish eyes are smiling and they produced sun on this pre-St. Patrick’s Day, even if we had to wait till past high noon to get the gloom to rise away. (As I write this in the a.m. of The Day itself, there are leprechauns blowing in the wind.) So it became there as gold for the St. Paul parade, co-hosted by my new labor of love, in this wee-bit sponsored content, the Irish Gazette, with which I am crossmarketing, so see more there and in their online version too. Blatant plug. They were lumenaries at the parade attended by many thousands, but wait, there’s more … You can continue to get your Irish on.

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What, it’s not quite St. Paddy’s Day yet?!? The Irish are already out and about, green garb and red hair

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